Three phrases people always get wrong
Short, practical English from the Learning team.
Three minutes, three phrases, and no grammar terminology at all.
All three are mistakes that fluent speakers make, which is the point of them. They are not beginner errors. They are the small habits that survive years of good English because nobody ever corrects them and because the meaning gets through anyway.
Each phrase gets the same treatment on screen: the version people say, why it lands oddly on a native ear, and the version to use instead, spoken twice at natural speed. There is no drill and nothing to write down. Hearing the right version a few times does more than memorising a rule about it.
Two of the three are about prepositions, which are the last thing to settle in any language and the first thing to slip when you are tired. The third is perfectly correct English that simply means something blunter than the speaker intends — worth knowing before a meeting rather than after one.
